Ice-creeper.



No791,5a4. g PATENTED JUNE 6,1905.

E. M.SGARRITI.

10E GREEPBR;

APPLICATION FILED MAY 21, 1904.

UNITED STATES Patented June 6, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

ELIZABETH M. SCARRITT, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

lCE-CR EEPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 791,584, dated June 6, 1905.

Application filed MayZl, 1904. Serial No. 209,075.

T0 0. whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELIZABETH M. SoARRrrr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gambrid'ge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Ice-Creepers, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like figures on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a novel ice-creeper which can be easily and quickly placed on ones boot or shoe and which is constructed to fit a variety of sizes of shoes.

The device comprises a plate or member having spurs or points projecting therefrom, a plurality of holding-clips adapted to embrace the edge of the shoe-sole, and yielding means connecting the clips to the plate.

The device is very flat and does not form an objectionable projection on the sole of the shoe, and its construction is such that it can be applied to and will hold equally well on various sizes of shoes.

In the drawings, Figure 1 illustrates the bottom of a shoe in perspective, showing my improved ice-creeper applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an end view of a boot or shoe sole having my device applied thereto. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the creeper detach ed from the shoe. Fig. 4 is a section on the line 00 m, Fig. 3; and Fig. 5 is the blank from which the plate is formed.

In the best form of my invention now known to me the device comprises a plate or member 3, which is adapted to extend transversely of the sole of the shoe and which has projecting therefrom spurs or points 4. The device is held to the sole of the shoe by holding-clips 5,

which may have any suitable shape adapted to grasp the edge of the sole of the shoe. In this form of my invention each holding-clip has the upright portion 6, which is preferably bent over slightly at its end, as at 7, to lie over the top of the sole, and the horizontallydisposed portion 8, which extends around under the sole. Said portion 8 is connected to the member or plate 3 by some suitable elastic means, which servestocause the holdingclips to tightly hug the edge of the sole, as seen in Fig. 2. The elastic connections herein illustrated comprise an elastic tape 9, although other forms of elastic connections could be used without departing from my invention.

One simple Way of connecting the various parts is to make the plate 3 from a blank, such as shown in Fig. 5, with the arms or members 10, which in the completed article are bent back upon themselves and grip the tape 9 between them and the body or plate 3. The tape 9 is preferably doubled on itself from each end, the loops thereof passing through eyes or apertures 13 in the holding-plates, the ends of the tape meeting underneath the portions 10 of the plate and being held thereby. This makes a very simple and durable construction.

The points 4. may be formed in any suitable way,'b ut preferably by striking up a portion of the material of the plate, and to give the creeper a better hold on the ice I prefer to form the points in rows extending at right angles to each other. In this form of my invention the central row of points extends transversely of the sole and other rows of points at the ends of the member 3 extend lengthwise of the sole. This arrangement of points prevents the ice-creeper from slipping in either direction.

While the details of the construction herein shown are those preferred by me, my invention is not limited thereto, and other elastic connections between the holding-clips and the member 3 may be used without departing from the invention.

I would also add that the particular way herein illustrated of securing the elastic connection to the member 3 is not essential to my invention and may therefore be varied Within the scope of the appended claim.

Having described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In an ice-creeper, a plate adapted to extend transversely of the sole of a boot or shoe, said plate having spurs projecting from its under side, holding-clips to embrace the edges of a 

